1 Apr - 29 May 2026

Baahwa ( Ghana )

In Niwaa ba (“Mother's child”), Baahwa uses photography and printmaking to examine the expectations imposed on AFAB people. Working from her position as a queer AFAB person born into the Asante matrilineal family system, she interrogates how kinship structures assign roles, responsibilities, and forms of control.

This project positions the home as a primary site of education and violence, where these pressures are learned and enforced through tradition, religion, and collective ambition. It traces how these inherited demands shape one’s relationship to self, body, and community, extending into broader social life. Positioned within Berlin, the work considers how these structures persist, shift, or fracture across diasporic and urban contexts.
In this body of work, Baahwa navigates compliance, resistance, and redefinition, positioning the body as both subject and site of negotiation.